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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790228403321

Titolo

The Routledge companion to museum ethics : redefining ethics for the twenty-first century museum / / editor, Janet Marstine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-71526-6

1-280-68258-2

9786613659521

1-136-71527-4

0-203-81546-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 477 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge companions

Altri autori (Persone)

MarstineJanet

Disciplina

174/.9069

Soggetti

Museums - Management - Moral and ethical aspects

Museums - Social aspects

Social change

Responsibility

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; The Routledge Copanion to Museum Ethics; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I: Theorizing Museum Ethics; 1. The contingent nature of the new museum ethics: Janet Marstine; 2. The art of ethics: Theories and applications to museum practice: Judith Chelius Stark; 3. GoodWork in museums today ... and tomorrow: Celka Straughn and Howard Gardner; 4. Museums and the end of materialism: Robert R. Janes

5. Changing the rules of the road: Post-colonialism and the new ethics of museum anthropology: Christina Kreps 6. "Aroha mai: Whose museum?": The rise of indigenous ethics within museum contexts: A Maori-tribal perspective: Paul Tapsell; 7. The responsibility of representation: A feminist perspective: Hilde Hein; Part II: Ethics, Activism and Social Responsibility; 8. On ethics, activism and human rights: Richard Sandell; 9. Collaboration, contestation, and creative conflict: On the efficacy of museum/community partnerships:



Bernadette T. Lynch

10. An experimental approach to strengthen the role of science centers in the governance of science: Andrea Bandelli and Elly Konijn 11. Peering into the bedroom: Restorative justice at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum: Lisa Yun Lee; 12. Being responsive to be responsible: Museums and audience development: Claudia B. Ocello; 13. Ethics and challenges of museum marketing: Yung-Neng Lin; 14. Memorial museums and the objectification of suffering: Paul Williams; Part III: The Radical Potential of Museum Transparency; 15. Cultural equity in the sustainable museum: Tristram Besterman

16. 'Dance through the minefield': The development of practical ethics for repatriation: Michael Pickering 17. Visible listening: Discussion, debate and governance in the museum: James M. Bradburne; 18. Ethical, entrepreneurial or inappropriate? Business practices in museums: James B. Gardner; 19. "Why is this here?": Art museum texts as ethical guides: Pamela Z. McClusky; 20. Transfer protocols: Museum codes and ethics in the new digital environment: Ross Parry; 21. Sharing conservation ethics, practice and decision-making with museum visitors: Mary M. Brooks

Part IV: Visual Culture and the Performance of Museum Ethics 22. The body in the (white) box: Corporeal ethics and museum representation: Mara Gladstone and Janet Catherine Berlo; 23. Towards an ethics of museum architecture: Suzanne MacLeod; 24. Museum censorship: Christopher B. Steiner; 25. Ethics of confrontational drama in museums: Bjarne Sode Funch; 26. Conservation practice as enacted ethics: Dinah Eastop; 27. Bioart and nanoart in a museum context: Terms of engagement: Ellen K. Levy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of compliance. The volume represents diverse strands in museum activity from exhibitions to marketing, as ethics is embedded in all areas of the museum sector.